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package com.google.code.motoo.codec.serialization;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * 
 * @author linfengqi
 * @version 1.0  May 13, 2009
 */
public class SerializationUtils {

	public static byte[] encodeToByteArray(Serializable object) {
		ByteArrayOutputStream bo = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
		ObjectOutputStream oo = null;
		try {
			oo = new ObjectOutputStream(bo);
			oo.writeObject(object);

			return bo.toByteArray();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();

			return null;
		} finally {
			if (oo != null) {
				try {
					oo.close();
				} catch (IOException e) {
				}
			}
		}

	}

	public static Object decodeFromByteArray(byte[] bytes) {
		ByteArrayInputStream bi = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);
		ObjectInputStream oi = null;

		try {
			oi = new ObjectInputStream(bi);
			Object result = oi.readObject();
			oi.close();
			return result;
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();

			return null;
		} finally {
			if (oi != null) {
				try {
					oi.close();
				} catch (IOException e1) {
				}

			}

		}
	}
}